Antimonium tartaricum
Keywords
- Impending
paralysis of lungs.
- Flapping
nostrils.
- Amel. sitting upright. (Weak,
drowsy, relaxed).
Synopsis
(identifying features)
- 1.
Irresistible inclination to sleep in almost all complaints. (Nux.m. , Op.)
- 2. Dread
of being left alone.
- Frightened
at trifles.
- 3. Averse
to being touched or looked at.
- 4.
Suffocative shortness or breath - cyanosis.
- 5. Must
SIT UP to breathe or cough (wants to be carried - or to sit up - UPRIGHT).
- 6.
Increasingly weak, drowsy, sweaty and relaxed (prostrated in mind and body).
- 7. Nausea,
forcible vomiting, then exhaustion and sleep.
- 8. COARSE
RATTLING OF MUCUS (in larynx and trachea), large accumulation of mucus in chest
with little
expectoration - inability
to raise it; relieved by expectoration or vomiting.
- 9.
"When lungs seem to fail, patient becomes sleepy, cough declines or ceases
(cannot raise expectoration), it
supplants Ipec." (Allen).
- 10. Thirstlessness in most complaints or drinks little and
often.
- 11.
NOSTRILS FLAPPING, constant in pneumonia (Lyc.).
- 12.
Vomiting in any position, except lying on right side.
- 13. Asphyxia (A condition arising when the body is deprived of oxygen,
causing unconsciousness or death; suffocation.) from mucus in bronchi;
from impending paralysis of lungs or foreign bodies in larynx with drowsiness or
coma.
Mind
- Clings to
attendants; dread of being left alone.
- Apathy, or
easily annoyed.
- Aversion to
being touched or looked at.
- Frightened
at night, at trifles.
- Talking in
sleep.
- Peevish,
whining and moaning.
-
Consciousness wanes on closing eyes (drowsy, comatose).
Objective
- Unwilling
to be looked at or touched.
- Wants to
be carried UPRIGHT.
- Vomits or
expectorates with great effort.
- Clings to
attendants.
- Flapping
of nostrils.
- Asphyxia neonatorum.
- Nausea
with weakness and cold sweat.
- Forcible
vomiting, then exhaustion and sleep.
- Coarse, rattling cough, yet less and less phlegm is raised.
- Must sit
up to breathe or cough. Somnolency ( strong desire
for sleep ) with all complaints.
-
"Pustules of Ant. t. are very similar to those of vaccinia or variola" - hence useful in smallpox or chicken pox.
Causation (a.f. )
- Mind
- Anger, vexation.
- Physical
-
Vaccination (Thuja fails, etc);
exposure to dampness; after eating.
Modalities
- Agg.
- Warm room;
wrap, weather.
-
Overheating, anger, lying, rising from seat, motion.
- Amel.
- LYING ON RIGHT
SIDE (vomiting); sitting or being carried UPRIGHT.
-
Expectoration; eructations; vomiting (rev. Ipec.).
Food &
drinks
- Thirst for
cold water, little and often.
- Craves
- Apples
(Aloes); ACIDS (which agg.).
- Aversion
to
- Milk,
food, tobacco.
- Disagree
- Milk, sour
things.
Genitalia
- Male
- Warts on
back of glans penis, very characteristic.
- Female
- Restless
during menses.
- Puerperal
convulsions amel. after
child is born.
Child
- Child
clings to those around.
- Asphyxia neonatorum (Aco.) - breathless and pale when born.
- Painful
whining and crying before and during a paroxysm.
-
Restlessness relieved by being carried upright.
- Weeps,
shrieks, when touched - to feel the pulse; or when looked at (Ant.c. , Sanic).
- Drowsy.
- Averse to
being spoken to.
- Weeps
before and during coughing.
- Comatose
(paralysis of lungs).
- Cholera morbus
(severe gastroenteritis of unknown etiology;
characterized by severe colic and vomiting and diarrhea ).
Peculiar,
uncommon, grand characteristics
- 1. Face
- Face cold,
blue, cyanotic or pale, covered with cold sweat (Tab.).
- 2. Gen.
Male
- Pain in testes
after checked gonorrhoea.
- 3. Cough
- Coarse rattling of mucus with inability to raise it.
- 4. Chest
- Pneumonia
of right lung with jaundice (Chel.).
- 5. Back
- Violent
pain in the sacro-lumbar region.
- 6.
Extremities
- Wandering
pain in the joints.
- 7. Fever
- Thirstlessness during fever.
- 8. Skin
- Pustular
or blue eruptions like small-pox (delayed or receding).
- 9.
Generalities
- Lies with
"head back' in lung affections.
- Must sit
up to breathe or cough.
- 10. Sleep
- With arms
under the head.
- 11. Dreams
- Preaching;
unpleasant.
Cases
- 77. Antim Tart:
- Child is
unwilling to be looked at or touched.
- Wants to
be let alone.
- Thick
eruptions like pocks; blue eruptions (Phatak's materia medica).
- (Dr.
Hawley - H.H. 1985/611)
- Nash adds
- Tart. emetic has paleness of face.
- Opium; red
face and stertor (respiratory sound characterized by
heavy snoring or gasping).
– Have cured
intermittent fever with Tart. emetic, when the patient slept continuously
during the sweat and heat and was prostrated.